"When you was slaves, you sang like birds..."
Posted on 08/26/2014 6:21:35 PM PDT by george76
In 1950, female-headed households were 18 percent of the black population. Today it's close to 70 percent. One study of 19th-century slave families found that in up to three-fourths of the families, all the children lived with the biological mother and father. In 1925 New York City, 85 percent of black households were two-parent households. Herbert Gutman, author of "The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925," reports, "Five in six children under the age of six lived with both parents." Also, both during slavery and as late as 1920, a teenage girl raising a child without a man present was rare among blacks.
A study of 1880 family structure in Philadelphia found that three-quarters of black families were nuclear families (composed of two parents and children). What is significant, given today's arguments that slavery and discrimination decimated the black family structure, is the fact that years ago, there were only slight differences in family structure among racial groups.
Coupled with the dramatic breakdown in the black family structure has been an astonishing growth in the rate of illegitimacy. The black illegitimacy rate in 1940 was about 14 percent; black illegitimacy today is over 70 percent, and in some cities, it is over 80 percent.
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The Census Bureau pegs the poverty rate among blacks at 28.1 percent.
A statistic that one never hears about is that the poverty rate among intact married black families has been in the single digits for more than two decades, currently at 8.4 percent.
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No, they don’t have to confront reality. Easier to confront a store clerk.
Blacks confront reality???
Good luck with that!
Never happen.
Government replaced daddy with a welfare check and punished marrieds or the upwardly mobile. Here’s the result.
Democrats did this.
If we had a neutral media ever American would know this from kindergarten on up.
Confronting reality would be “acting white” Can’t have that.
Did you really think the Demonrat Party was going to let them get away with abolishing slavery?? That is why the Demonrat party and LBJ passed the “War on the Family” in 1964, but it also enslaved the entire population in Perpetual DEBT to the Moneychangers. The Moneychangers create DEBT out of thin air and force all americans to pay Interest on this Debt. Today it is known as Federal Reserve Notes, Money. And every last dollar and credit was LOANED into SOCIETY with ever increasing interest and constant devaluation.
Wait . . . How come the Ku Klux Klan and the Brotherhood of Victimhood say exactly the same thing?
He expects the gibmedats to confront reality? Not bloody likely.
90 to 95% of the black vote was bought with welfare. They don’t care what happens as long as they they can get their free stuff.
Thank God for Mr. Williams. A voice of sanity.
If I said this I’d be a racist.
Reality 101 for people of all races:
If you don’t work and don’t try to get a job when you are able to do so, you’re a lazy ass.
If you don’t conform to societal standards of morality and decency you’re a deviant.
If you walk around expecting that the fruits of other people labor is yours for the taking and act on it, you’re a criminal.
If you don’t respect the person of other individuals and they are armed, you’re a dead man.
Yes, blacks do need to confront reality; the reality that they have been re-enslaved by the liberals of this country thanks to the fallout from the Great Society welfare programs over the last 50 years.
Every time I really start to get fed up with Blacks, I realize there are people like Walter William. One of the best people I ever knew was a guy from Ghana. He was a Christian and very conservative. I do hope he eventually becomes president of his country as he would be a fine one.
On the other hand.
How is this the black’s fault?
It’s the communist democrat politicians that caused and continue to encourage the break up of the black family
Lyndon Johnson, you screwed these people!
The current family crisis is what you end up with when you center your social lives around thugs, drugs and ho’s. Which is about all the inner city black culture has become.
Welfare should be completely cut off to anyone who tests positive for drugs. That’s just for starters.
I fear you’re right; if anything, their bleak reality is increasingly masked with affirmative action and a refusal to have frank discussions about race. Pretending they are educated enough to give them unearned high school diplomas and college degrees, and hiring them for jobs, and awarding them promotions, for which they aren’t qualified, is not moving in the right direction in terms of “confronting reality”...Terms like a “gentleman’s C” have simply been replaced with “preferred minorities’ A” - equally devoid of meaning.
As a supervisor I find that any type of written response during the application process serves as a great screen of job candidates; it lets you know exactly what the education listed on a resume really means. Not that it is a barrier to employment; it simply determines what level of work somebody might really be qualified to do. I remember the first time I realized that “ghetto talk” wasn’t some type of accent; the actual writing is just as poor as the speaking. The incorrect grammar isn’t just an act; many really have poor English skills (despite being raised in an English-speaking country).
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